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If you wonder how this witchcraft is achieved:
#dvdram disks are "hard sectored" more or less like older style hard disks and floppies were. This essentially turns the DVD-RAM disk into thousands of individually addressable "mini rewritable dvds"
The DVD […]
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If you were wondering whether you could run #duke3d directly from a #dvdram disk now you know.
Yes, yes, you can!
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
root@dolly:~# mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sr0 mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31) root@dolly:~# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt root@dolly:~# cp -rv /home/hp/Apps/Duke_Nukem/DN3DINST/* /mnt '/home/hp/Apps/Duke_Nukem/DN3DINST/COMMIT.EXE' -> '/mnt/COMMIT.EXE' ... snip ... '/home/hp/Apps/Duke_Nukem/DN3DINST/USER.CON' -> '/mnt/USER.CON' root@dolly:~# umount /mnt root@dolly:~#
This is unnatural! But it works, really well!
Why didn't these catch on? They are a lot faster than floppies!
#retrocomputing #dvdram
A picture of three Verbatim DVD-RAM disks. They are pink, blue, and orange. "Garish" doesn't begin to describe it.
It is time!
#retrocomputing #dvdram
Two years ago, I was pulling out the few remaining wisps of hair I had - respooling tape, fixing kit, swearing a lot #ReelToReel #RCASoundTapeCartridge #DCC #8Track #Elcaset #DVDRAM #CD #DTRS #CraftTape #MicroSD #SonyNT #Betamax #ADAT #Cassette #REVDisk #DAT #MiniDisc #ZIPDisk #MicroCassette #Vinyl
